Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Over 1000 people will be invited," Higgins added, "and we expect at least 250 to attend." Among those invited will be Senator John F. Kennedy '40, the two Democratic national committeemen from Massachusetts and members of the executive council for the Massachusetts Americans for Democratic Action...
...committeemen and women present welcomed Alcorn's carefully drawn nine-point reorganizing program -two million more precinct workers, year-long fund-raising campaigns, more emphasis on college-age voters and teenagers, etc. But when it came to the philosophy that the remodeled machine should push, conservatives were less than enthusiastic. And they had the meeting's stronger voices...
Emboldened by Simpson and Goldwater, Midwestern committeemen opened another file cabinet, urged the firing of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, whom they blame for the heavy G.O.P. losses in the Midwest. At that point Alcorn got the anti-Benson motion tabled, closed the two-day session on a note of hearty approval for the Alcorn program...
...factor in choosing political convention sites. More important to coffer-conscious political leaders is the amount that major U.S. cities are willing to pay for the prestige of a convention and for the loot that flows in for hotel rooms, meals, entertainment, etc. Last week, when Democratic National Committeemen met in New Orleans to pick their 1960 convention site, representatives of four cities-Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Philadelphia-were willing, and waving sizable sums of cash...
...insider odds are that Kearns will make little headway. Dillon carries a lot more prestige than Kearns, both within the Administration and on Capitol Hill. During last spring's hearings on the Administration's reciprocal trade bill, Kearns's rough-edged stubbornness so annoyed Ways & Means committeemen that there was talk of formally expelling him from the hearing room. When Dillon replaced Kearns as the Administration spokesman, the stalled bill glided through the committee with ease. But Kearns has an influential friend on Ways & Means: Louisiana's Hale Boggs, chairman of the foreign-trade subcommittee...